Deckmhiu I, 1907.' 



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and some other lines which involve the use of a considerable 

 amount of rubber, are building an addition to their factory at 

 Muskegon, Michigan, to which they will remove certain depart- 

 ments of their business now located in Chicago. They report 

 to The India Rubber World: "This will not mean any increase 

 so far as our purchase of crude rubber is concerned. We will 

 continue to use crude rubber the same as heretofore in some of 

 our departments, particularly for bowling balls." 



A NEW INSULATION. 



The Green Insulation Co. (Cleveland, Ohio), the incorporation 

 of which was reported in this paper last month (page 59), will 

 make a non-carbonizing, non-disintegrating insulation known as 

 "Green's Q. A. Insulation." The material is stated to be quartz 

 and alumina; it has been introduced into rubber compounds for 

 electrical purposes, with results reported to have been most satis- 

 factory. The company state that there are many uses in the rub- 

 ber indnstry to which their material may be applied. D. J. Barry 

 is president and treasurer, and John F. Green vice-president and 

 general manager. The company purpose building a factory next 

 spring. 



HARD RUBBER AUTOMOBILE ACCESSOHIES. 



I'he products of the Joseph Stokes Rubber Co. (Trenton, New 

 Jersey) in hard rubber embrace a number of specialties of interest 

 to the automobile trade, including a steering wheel consisting of 

 an aluminum or other metal web with a rim composed of a steel 

 tube covered with hard rubber. These wheels are furnished in 

 different styles to meet the requirements of various car makers: 

 some with solid rims, others with control grips in the rim, and 

 so on. The company's line also includes starting crank handles, 

 grips, radiator caps, throttle lever grips, and the like. 



THE GUAYULE RUBBER INTEREST. 



The Torreon (Mexico) Enterprise of November 16 says: 

 "The report that the Continental-Mexican Rubber Co.'s plant in 

 this city is likely to be closed down for a time is denied by head 

 officials of the company. It is claimed that they have enough 

 shrub on hand and contracted for to keep them running at the 

 present rate for two years. Besides, they have extensive guayule 

 lands of their own from which they can gather immense quan- 

 tities of the guayule plant. It is further stated that the night 

 force, which was recently laid off, will be put back to work just 

 as soon as financial matters are again in good shape in the East.'' 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO.'S ISSUES. 



Trans.^ctions on the New York Stock Exchange for four 

 weeks, ending November 23 : 



Common Stock. 



Week Nov. 2 Sales 2250 shares High 19^ Low i6;2 



Week Nov. 9 Sales 3780 shares High 17J4 Low 15 



Week Nov. 16 Sales 2210 shares High 16^ Low 14^4 



Week Nov. 23 Sales 2200 shares High is^ij Low I3J4 



For the year — High, 52^, Feb. 16; low, i.lH, Nov. 21. 

 Last year — High, 59%; low, 38. 



First Preferred Stock. 



Week Nov. 2 Sales 4374 shares High 70 Low 61 J4 



Week Nov. 9 Sales 2630 shares High 7054 Low 65 



Week Nov. 16 Sales 2600 shares High 67J4 Low 63;/^ 



Week Nov. 23 Sales 3170 shares High 65 Low 62 



For the year — High, 109^8, Jan. 7; low, 61%, Oct. 30. 

 Last year — High, 115; low, I04.)4. 



Second Preferred Stock. 



Week Nov. 2 Sales 600 shares High 4354 Low 40 



Week Nov. 9 Sales 270 shares High 44yi Low 43 



Week Nov. 16 Sales 200 shares High 40 Low 39J4 



Week Nov. 23 Sales 800 shares High 42 Low 39 



For the year — High. 78 Vj, Jan. 7; low, 39. Nov. 21. 

 'Last year — High, 87 14; low. 75. 



NO "WASTE RUBBER" IS WASTED. 



At a recent sale at auction in Boston of the effects of a firm 

 in the waste materials trade, the catalogue embraced more than 

 20 rubber items, which are repeated below, to illustrate the grow- 



ing tendency to utilize worn out rubber goods of every form. 

 The list included rubber boots and shoes, rubber strip, hard 

 rubber valves, mixed auto tires, scrap rubber belting, scrap tape, 

 white friction, matting and packing, bicycle tires, mixed rubber 

 hose, fire hose, rubber sneakers, large hose, solid tires, red pack- 

 ing rubber, cement waste, rubber substitute, gutta-percha, pure 

 gum scrap, hard rubber, mixed inner tubes, black rubber, white 

 rubber, white cloth insertion packing, black horseshoe pads, red 

 rubber, metal and rubber, carriage cloth, balloon scrap, hard 

 rubber shavings, dress shields, and insulated copper wire. 



GOODRICH GOODS IN CLEVELAND. 



The Forest City Rubber Co. (Cleveland, Ohio) have recently 

 become the sole representatives in their territory for The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio), for mechanical rubber goods. 

 They consider this a very notable achievement, because of the 

 very high standing of the Goodrich company, and also because 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co. have always refrained in the past from 

 extending to any one concern an exclusive agency for their goods. 

 The Forest City Rubber Co. have lately completely their second 

 year under the management of Mr. William G. Grofut, and 

 have met with very flattering success. 



SWINEHART TIRES IN EUROPE. 



The Bavarian Rubber and Asbestos Works, of 63, Crutched 

 Friars, London, E.C., are referred to as having secured the sole 

 licenses for the manufacture and sple of the Swinehart solid 

 vehicle tires in Great Britain and the British colonies. This com- 

 pany is the British representative of Actiengesellschaft Metzeler 

 & Co., of Munich, mentioned in The India Rubber World of 

 October i, 1907 (page 17), as having arranged with The Sw'ine- 

 hart Clincher Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) for the manu- 

 facture of these tires in Germany. • 



DAVIDSON RUBBER CO. 



The Davidson Rubber Co. (Boston) are announcing promi- 

 nently that they are proprietors of the Sterling Fountain Pen 

 Co., the makers and distributors of the "Sterling" fountain pen, 

 which would seem to set at rest any report current recently that 

 the company have disposed of part of their business. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



J. H. Lane & Co. (New York) are back of a large cotton duck 

 mill which they claim will be bigger, better, and more up to date 

 for the production of duck for belting and hose than anything 

 before projected. The mill will be located in Georgia. 



Mr. Wilmer Dunbar, superintendent of the Pennsylvania Rub- 

 ber Co. (Jeannette, Pa.), has been elected vice president of the 

 Glass City Union Deposit Bank, of Jeannette. 



The new taxicabs introduced by the New York Taxi-Cab Co. 

 [See The India Rubber World November i, 1907— page 58] are 

 equipped with tires made by The B. F. Goodrich Co., of Akron, 

 Ohio. 



Home Rubber Co. (Trenton, New Jersey) have begun the 

 manufacture of insulated wire. The marking which they have 

 adopted under the rules of the National Electric Code is a red 

 thread woven crosswise into the braid. 



The Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co. have renewed for 

 ten years the lease on the premises. No. 18 Vesey street, occupied 

 as their offices in New York. 



Rumor has it that Mr. S. H. C. Miner, of Montreal, who was 

 in Boston recently, was considering plans for equipping a new, 

 up-to-date electrically operated rubber shoe factory for the 

 Dominion, to be run independently of any other concern in the 

 trade. 



The Manufactured Rubber Co. (Philadelphia) has declared a 

 dividend of Ij4 per cent., payable on December 2 to holders of 

 record on November 23. 



